We′re Born to Learn: Using the Brain′s Natural Learning Process to Create Today′s Curriculum - Hardcover

Smilkstein, Rita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761946411 ISBN 13: 9780761946410

Publisher: Corwin, 2002

Synopsis

This extraordinary book shows teachers how to create and deliver curriculum that helps students become the motivated, successful natural learners they were born to be.

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About the Author

Dr. Smilkstein speaks nationally and internationally on brain-compatible education. She has taught in middle school through graduate school including 28 years at North Seattle Community College. Currently Professor Emerita North Seattle Community College and invited faculty in Educational Psychology at Western Washington University′s Woodring College of Education, Everett Campus. Publications include articles and books on brain-based curriculum and pedagogy. Author of We’re Born to Learn: Using the Brain’s Natural Learning Process to Create Curriculum (Corwin Press, 2003), which won the Delta Kappa Gamma International Society’s Educator’s Award of the Year, 2004; the second edition will be published in 2011. She is a co-author of Igniting Student Potential Using the Natural Human Learning Process (Corwin Press, 2007). M.A. (English, Michigan State University), Ph.D. (Educational Psychology, University of Washington). She has received many teaching awards, including the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development’s Excellence Award, 1991, 1995; the College Reading and Learning Association’s highest honor, the Robert Griffin Award, 2005; Induction as a Fellow of the American Council of Developmental Education Associations, 2006, the highest honor in the field of Developmental Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761946411
• ISBN 13: 9780761946410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272